Beggars cant be choosers.
West has no option BUT to deal with the greatest industrial manufacturing power ever seen in human history.
West can try to diversify to other locations out of China but will never be free of China as its main importer because China has massive overcapacity in industrial goods production. Besides, as data shows, China has more or less shrugged off their embargoes from the west and made up its western trade loss with the global south markets.
One thing is clear- West has been consistently wrong about its predictions about China for 40 years and counting. In 80s they believed that economic liberalization will bring political liberalization: WRONG.
In early 2000s they believed that China will remain a ' small household goods manufacturer and will never move to heavy industries'. WRONG
Now the western thinking is 'China will be crushed by economic choking and demographic collapse'.
I see no reason to 'trust' such a prediction, from the people who are batting at 0 wins and all wrong answers for 40 years straight.
Arre these are all jhumlas fed to civilians.
They have built China all these years precisely to be the Big Bad of the coming decades like the Soviet Union was for latter part the 20th century
It is not an accident, it is not a wrong prediction.
They fed PRChina the monetary investment, the technical knowledge, the sweetheart trade deals and concessions, knowing how the CCP regime works there, they looked the other way while the Chinese stole US defence tech secrets and made various 1:1 clones of their high tech weapons and jets.
It's almost what they gave Korea and Japan but those were/are vassals.
Meanwhile our govt has to beg , plead and do mujra for a few GE jet engines, a few semiconductor fabs and even assembly plants for Laptops, god only knows what all has been "given" for the privilege of buying Russkie oil without sanctions.
They even stopped regime change stunts after the Tianmen Square protests failed with the massacre.
What our govt and nation suffers is the defacto policy of the West for un-enslaved( or "allied" in their terminology ) nations,
So you might wonder why was so much lavished upon China? people bandy about what jhumls you've mentioned and the classic "China was cold war ally against Soviet Union" but these are all copium meant for civilian consumption.
Truth is the China you see today is according to plan, it is not an accident, it is not a fuck up.
